Sunday, 1st March: A return to west and windy conditions this morning, with persistent drizzly rain, though easing off later, pushed through by a very brisk southerly breeze.....
Selsey Bill: It was very quiet this morning, with 23 Brent Geese east the only thing of note. Full log below. (SH/IP)
(0645-0830hrs) (SSW, 6-7)
Gannet - 1E, 3W
Brent Goose - 23E, 8W
Red-breasted Merganser - 2W
Turnstone - 3W
Great Black-backed Gull - 1E, 7W
Kittiwake - 1W
Meadow Pipit - 1N
(1230-1330hrs) (SH)
Great Northern Diver - 1os
Slavonian Grebe - 1os
Gannet - 2W
Brent Goose - 1E
Turnstone - 3
Great Black-backed Gull - 2W
Kittiwake - 1W
Sandwich Tern - 1W
Ferry Pool: There were six Avocets and a Redshank on the pool this morning, but many fewer wildfowl than of late, with just c50 Shovelers and c25 Wigeon and Teal present. (AH)
Avocets (above) & Shovelers at the Ferry (AH)
Selsey: A Coal Tit was in my garden, to the north of the village, this morning. (AW)
Coal Tit in a Selsey garden (AW)
Church Norton: It was very quiet in the harbour on the high tide, with just an handful of Wigeon and Teal, a lone Brent Goose, a Little Grebe and one or two Oystercatchers and Curlews seen, whilst a Chiffchaff was the only thing in the hedges. (AH/SH)
Wigeon (above) & Little Grebe at Church Norton (AH)
Chichester GPs: Ivy Lake complex - A quick look around the various pits late this morning produced no hirundines and not much else beyond an Egyptian Goose, half a dozen Greylag Geese, c40 Canada Geese, a pair of Shovelers, 16 Pochard, 25 Tufted Ducks and four Great Crested Grebes. (AH)
Pochards (above), Shovelers, Egyptian Goose & Greylag Geese at Chichester GPs (AH)
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